Named Entity Results, Chryse

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ntion of his violent death in
ancient writers. But Labdacus having left a year -old son, Laius, the government
was usurped by Lycus, brother of Nycteus, so long as Laius was a child. Both of themThat is, the two brothers Lycus and Nycteus. had fled
[ from
Euboea] because they had killed
Phlegyas, son of Ares and Dotis the
Boeotian,This Phlegyas is supposed to be Phlegyas, king
of Orchomenus, whom Paus. 9.36.1 calls a son of Ares and
Chryse. If this identification is right,
the words “from Euboea”
appear to be wrong, as Heyne pointed out, since Orchomenus is not in Euboea but in
Boeotia. But there were many places called
Euboea, and it is possible that one of them
was in Boeotia. If that was so, we may
conjecture that the epithet “Boeotian,” which, applied to Dotis, seems superfluous, was applied by Apollodorus to
Euboea and has been misplaced by a copyist.
If the

les followed in his
Philoctetes, the accident to Philoctetes happened, not in Tenedos, but in the small island of Chryse, where a goddess of that name was worshipped,
and the serpent which bit Philoctetes was the guardian of her shrine. See Soph. Phil. 263-270; Soph. Phil.
1326-1328. Later writers identified Chryse with Athena, and said that Philoctetes was stung while he was
cleansing her altar or clearing it of the soil under which it was buried, as Tzetzes hasentification is not supported by Sophocles nor by the evidence of a vase painting,
which represents the shrine of Chryse with
her name attached to her image. See Jebb's Soph. Ph., p. xxxviii, section
21.; Baumeister, Denkmäler des klassischen
Altertums, iii.1326, fig. 1325. The island of Chryse is no doubt the “desert island near
Lemnos” in which down to the first
century B.C. were to be seen “an altar of Philoctetes, a bronze serpent, a